Thursday, October 11, 2012

Practicing Our Scary For Halloween

It's time. October we need to get our scary on. Every day the conversations with the girls swirl around the ususals: monstres, sorcières, squelettes, araignées, citrouilles ... (monster, witches, skeletons, spiders, pumpkins...) and all the books borrowed from the library have these characters, and the only game they want to play is "Mommy's the Monster, RUN!"

It's exhausting. But I got with it, because they sleep better these days after so much chasing and getting eating by me.

As you all may know, Eden's a pro potty pooper, but sometimes she takes FOREVER to get the job done as she patiently waits for the rest of her crap to decent, all this time I'm obligated to sit on a stool and talk or read books to her. (If I don't, it's screaming and panic and near accidents on the floor. She doesn't like solitary pooping. Sigh)

So this last time, an especially long one, we had some fun practicing our scary monster faces.

Enjoy the photo-log:
Or not... you might not enjoy it, but we got a kick out of it :)

There was a lot of laughter

Eden thinks her mom is crazy now

Nothing is funnier than a baby making a scary face!

She's got the perfect cheeks for this...

She's really improving her technique

"Here Teya, take this camera, let a pro show you how it's done...."

This is a ghouls face...

How 'bout this....

... the Asian monster...

... smooooosh....

....now I'm in the groove...

...how about this action?...

... getting intense! Super creepy!

K,ouch, now my face hurts, lips are a little swollen...

Eden's taking the pointers well, she's trying that last creepy one out...

1 comment:

Jack sat down with me to view your post. He instantly started laughing when he saw Eden's scary faces and then we got to you... and it went quiet. Jack was very still, very serious and I suspect, very scared.

I always knew you made awesome scary faces. The gnashing skelington teeth are a classic. I've always loved that one. Eden has awesome scary face cheeks. She can barely get her whole hand around those big babies!

The Latest with the Catudals-

Here we are:this is what we're doing, trying, searching, exploring, and enjoying.

Phil's back in school and we're in Oregon now! Oh Laie, how we miss you and wished we could never leave you... unless it's for France, New Zealand, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Switzerland... okay so I guess there's still a lot out there to see and do! Phil is attending MBA school now at Willamette, and at the same time has started a business (found at getzonedup.com). Teya is mastering the 1st grade and braggilitiously at the top of her class even though she's an entire year younger than her peers. Eden owns the family with her cute face and her sweet French (with funny "Franglish" phrases once and a while.)

As for the Chubby Panda, aka Me, I'm raising the girls because they're only young and cute once. Someday when they're no longer young or cute, I'll become a recluse taking obscene amounts of time to paint and create again.

( I do, however, spend of bit of my energy over on coconutsandcardamom.com)